The RPG Maker Resource Kit
RMRK RPG Maker Creation => XP => XP Tutorials => Topic started by: dwarra on November 16, 2005, 06:24:41 PM
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Okay, alot of people on this forum dont understand tilesets, and therefore there maps are not made to 100% standard, not being rude in anyway and if your offended, i apologise.
Ive just decided on making a quick tutorial to help people understand the tilsets, and how to make them look more detailed, and overall, better :twisted:
Understanding Layers
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You will find these buttons at the top of the screen, on the toolbar. There are four layers, 3 for mapping and one for placing events. Incase you didnt guess, the first layer is the one with the orange part at the bottom. Second layer, orange in middle, and third orange on top etc. The fourth layer is the whole cube.
The First Layer
The first layer is usually used for the floor, roof, and mostly wall tiles.
The Second Layer
This layer is used for putting some detail on your map, like windows, tables, drawers and shelves etc.
The Third Layer
This layer is used for finer details, like cups , plants, books, paintings etc.
The Event Layer
This layer is not for mapping, but for making events like NPCs and animated stuff like fire etc.
Making the first layer!
Okay, first you have to lay your floor. On the tileset, select lighter of the two wooden floor tiles. The second will be used for shadowed parts of the floor.
Fill the whole map with this, and it should look like so;
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The next stage is to add a wall, select this tile from the set;
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and go around the edges, but leaving one square blank at the bottom, as that will be our exit >.< Your map should now look like this;
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Okay we are getting somewhere :D
Next we need to just put the normal wall in. Select the appropiate tiles, (there are on the 4th or 5th row of the tileset. Make it look like this;
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Okay thats the basic template sorted. Next click on the second layer its time to add some windows 8).
I want you to select the window with the blue curtains, and add them three tiles in like so;
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(Its dark cos ur on the second layer lol)
Next step is to select this tile;
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Switch back to the first layer and put it under the windows. Youll have to remember where the windows were, when done, select the event layer and your map should look like this;
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OKAY! Next switch back to the first layer and place these tiles,
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Next add these this tile twice under the window;
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Adding rooms to your room
The next phase is to add some rooms, to make the house look more realistic. Using the tiles you used earlier, make the room look like so! Hopefully you can do this !!!
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Now your house has 3 rooms, where you can add a dining room, a kitchen and a storage room.
Now you have a good indoor structure, now just add detail using the second flor and third floor and when you have done, try make your house look like this. You'll agree its detailed, and looks great. This is a quick and simple room , you can make better ones than this !!!
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Somebody sticky this please :P
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omg it looks like an actual door there..
er.. wow Oo
you can make better ones than this !!!
no.. i can't.. and odds are, unless ill copy this thing i won't be able to do that either Xx
gratz, you are one hella gifted mapper and if you ever wanna make a game together let me know
(ill be doing all the events and you'll be doing all the maps ^^ and some1 else will choose the music lolz)
i give it 10/10 (cus it's the first tutorial that i have seen a high level of work in and isn't just for noobs, and cus it's very very detailed)
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Any other comments? Thanks blueXx, there are better mappers than me lol
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there are better mappers than me lol
*is out from the mapping buisness for good after reading that line*
anyways if i'll ever continue the workness on my game ill be requesting just about all the maps Xx
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Sorry to *BUMP* this topic but it took me a while to write this so comments would be nice!!!
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A friggen tutorial in tutorials index, finally! I feel a video coming on...
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Thanks !!!
MORE MORE MORE !!!
All this work for 3 comments!?
People need this tut! Im not being a bighead but please comment !!!
And someone sticky pleeeeeeasssse :oops:
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hey dwarra!!!! wonderful tutorial, I loved it, it really helped me!!!!!!!!!!!!! really, you
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thank you sooo much for the info now i can make the tea house in yokohama for my samurai champloo rpg
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GREAT TUTORIAL!!!!
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Could I have more comments on this? People have requested more tutorials, but if this is my feedback (Same amount of people said its crap than good) then i wont right any :)
I know more people have used this than commented so...
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thought it was great!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :lol:
:cry: dont deprive us of your map making tutorials plz
:O_o:
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Im going to make a cave tutorial next.
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yes i need this one too expecially after my faliare to make one rember?????? :lol:
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hey dwarra, you could make a tut of how making a city too, it
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This is a great tutorial! It really helped me to make the indoors mapes for my game!!!
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I must say, a good tutorial.
There
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Thank you for your comments, I shall be making some more tutorial soon, including how to make a good town and a good cave.
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sweet can't wwait
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Nice! Your a sticky! Caves, I suck at caves! Can't wait for that.
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Yeah Dwarra, this tutorial is awesome!
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I need that Cave Tutorial really bad, dude!
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Hehe! This reminds me of a joke I heard: This guy goes out to work, and finds an insurance sitting on his car , arms spread out. So he asks "Hey insurance what are you doing hugging my car?", and the insurance answers "I'm not hugging, i'm a BLANKET". :lol: :lol: :lol:
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My attmept is it ok?
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Yes, well done, next use PM though.
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Since you wanted comments on this before you'll write another one... I like everything about this tutorial except the part about light from windows.... and that's just because I don't like that look. Just looks silly to me but others like it so..
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Your really a gifted mapmaker dwarra. Can't wait for your other tutorials!
Mapmaking is one of the main reasons i can't finish many games.
I'm gonna try and make a house, do you mind if i PM you with it and you can tell me if it needs any improving?
Thanx in advance!
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O.K. here's some contructive critizism. Your a preety good mapper, as I can tell from your request forum. However, rooms aren't hard at all. I learned nothing new about rooms. You made a skeleton of the room, then you cluttered the room up with things. That's all. You can do a better tutorial than that. Let's see one about puzzles, or cities, like someone else suggested. Caves will proze how good of a mapper you are too.
Does that sound harsh? I'm sorry, but it's true. I have mapped better rooms. but they were important rooms, with strict goals in mind.
But keep writing, you show promise.
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lol, it was to help newbie mappers ^_^
Im not offended at all :P
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O.K. here's some contructive critizism. Your a preety good mapper, as I can tell from your request forum. However, rooms aren't hard at all. I learned nothing new about rooms. You made a skeleton of the room, then you cluttered the room up with things. That's all. You can do a better tutorial than that. Let's see one about puzzles, or cities, like someone else suggested. Caves will proze how good of a mapper you are too.
Does that sound harsh? I'm sorry, but it's true. I have mapped better rooms. but they were important rooms, with strict goals in mind.
But keep writing, you show promise.
yeah, but as dwarra said it
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I'd liked to see better. I could use a few mapping clases.
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Hey thanks SO much, this was awesome!! I am a newbie, next maybe you can show how to do a good town or something a little more complicated? Thanks SO much!! :D
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well... when i make those walls it just lets me walk though them...
EDIT: nvm i fixed it :D
and by the way dwarra thanks, i didnt even realise those were walls at first :whoa:
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Dude my maps went for BS to Nice thanks to you. Thank you for your tut and those who taught you:D THANKS!
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This tutorial helped me a lot. Thankyou :)
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Wow! Great tutorial. You should definitely keep these coming. A tutorial for a town would be excellent, because mine, well, suck...
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Thanks!!! I'm going to use this in my game... can I...?
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Of coruse, this is how you do it....wow...
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It's beautaful man just beatuaful makes me wanna cry finnally a tutorial with in game demo.... I am so going to use this for some game, once i figure out where it should go.
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Great tutorial it helped me loads!
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wow that looks amazing, until i saw this, my houses were just the wood tile on the first floor, and a window and a door event thing...aka: crap. ty for this! it makes it look ALOTTOLA better
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Thanks Dwarras this tut really helped me out, I like a few other just had wood tile all over the place. its made all the current maps I have look 100% better, cheers.
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looolol
still getting views
this tutorial is wack but whatever
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I didn't really need the help from this tutorial, but it's good anyways. :)
I can't say that I care much for the light from the windows...for some reason that just bothers me and looks weird. Even when I do it on my maps...anyhow, great job. Now I'll go on to look at the other tutorials to see if I can learn anything. :)